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Defining Identities
BRILL 2007; US$ 144.00Contains 15 of the papers read at the Fifth Meeting of the IOQS, celebrated in Groningen 27-28 July, 2004. This title focuses on the identity formation of the group or groups represented in the Scrolls and explores issues of self-definition of Jewish groups in relation to, or in reaction towards other groups within Judaism. more...
The Dead Sea Scrolls
BRILL 2010; US$ 230.00This volume presents the proceedings of an international conference of the same title held at the University of Birmingham in 2007. The contributors are drawn from the ranks of leading intenational specialists in the field writing alongside promising younger scholars. The volume includes studies on the contribution of the Scrolls to Second Temple Jewish... more...
The Dead Sea Scrolls in Scholarly Perspective: A History of Research
BRILL 2012; US$ 273.00This book contains an exhaustive survey of past and present Qumran research, outlining its particular development in various circumstances and national contexts. For the first time, perspectives and information not recorded in any other publication are highlighted. more...
Ethics in the Qumran Community
Mohr Siebeck 2010; US$ 65.02Hauptbeschreibung Marcus Tso uses an interdisciplinary methodology to reexamine a long-neglected subject. Rather than the contents of ethics, the author focuses on the bases of ethics in the Qumran community, using the texts it collected as the primary evidence. He begins by comparing the ethical language of the Scrolls with other related literatures,... more...
Performanzkritik der Paulusbriefe
Mohr Siebeck 2012; US$ 98.09Hauptbeschreibung Die biblischen Texte stammen aus einer Kultur, in der die Schrift in der Regel dem gesprochenen Wort diente. Das Geschriebene wurde vor Zuhörern vorgetragen und entfaltete seine Wirkung in einem gemeinschaftlich erlebten Ereignis. Dabei waren über den semantischen Gehalt des Dargebotenen hinaus auch die Elemente mündlicher Kommunikation... more...
Wisdom Texts from Qumran
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 35.95This study is the first full analysis of the Qumran wisdom texts. New translations and a full explanation of the background and context of wisdom literature introduce the reader to an important and hitherto little discussed part of the Dead Sea Scrolls. After surveying biblical and extrabiblical wisdom books, the author considers the best and most... more...
Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Taylor and Francis 1998; US$ 37.951997 was the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls explores the evidence about calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Hebrew Bible and other ancient Jewish texts. James C. VanderKam examines the pertinent texts, their sources and the different uses to which people put calendrical information... more...
The Messiah Before Jesus
University of California Press 2000; US$ 15.95In a work that challenges notions that have dominated New Testament scholarship for more than a hundred years, Israel Knohl gives evidence for a messianic precursor to Jesus who is described as the "Suffering Servant" in recently published fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls. more...
Law in the Documents of the Judaean Desert
BRILL 2005; US$ 123.00A collection of articles by leading contributors on the investigation of the law?Jewish, Greek, and Roman? in the early second century Judaean Desert documents, written in the Roman provinces of Judaea and Arabia, including the Babatha archive. more...
Deciphering the Dead Sea Scrolls
Wiley 2008; US$ 142.95The second edition of this fascinating book is the ideal introduction to the importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran and their impact on our understanding of the rise of Christianity. Introduces the Qumran Scrolls to the uninitiated general reader. Explains how revolutionary the discovery of the Scrolls was and their enduring significance.... more...









